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Synonyms for lack
læklack
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
lack
Synonyms:
dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, wantAntonyms:
dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
lacknoun
Synonyms:
failure, scarcity, deficiency, want, need, demand, insufficiencyAntonyms:
fulness, abundance, sufficiency, satisfaction, supply, competencelackverb
Synonyms:
want, require, need, be destitute ofAntonyms:
supply, have abundance of
Princeton's WordNet
lack, deficiency, wantverb
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
"there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
Synonyms:
neediness, need, deprivation, wishing, wish, want, privation, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiencymiss, lackverb
be without
"This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
Synonyms:
drop, omit, lose, neglect, leave out, overleap, pretermit, miss, overlook, escape
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lackverb
Synonyms:
want, need, be in want of, be in need of, be destitute of, be withoutlackverb
Synonyms:
be in wantlackverb
Synonyms:
be wantinglacknoun
Synonyms:
need, deficiency, destitution, want, scantiness, insufficiency, scarcity, dearth, default, defectiveness, shortness, shortcoming, DEFICIT
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lacknoun
Synonyms:
want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought, default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortnesslackverb
Synonyms:
need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "lack":
absence, shortage, lacks, failure, insufficient, scarcity, missing, shortfall, dearth, unavailability, paucity, inadequacy, deficiency, miss, shortages, insufficiency, fault, non-existence, non-availability, shortcoming, deficit, inadequate, lacking, falta, gap, misses, loss, defect, misdemeanour, needed, lacked, absent, no
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LACK
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#48 | no | |
#183 | need | |
#254 | want | |
#972 | loss | |
#1059 | needed | |
#1089 | wish | |
#1539 | require | |
#1779 | economy | |
#1829 | demand | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2158 | drop | |
#2246 | missing | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2498 | lack | |
#3169 | lose | |
#3761 | poverty | |
#4114 | gap | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4642 | absence | |
#5045 | fault | |
#6793 | absent | |
#8380 | deficit | |
#9974 | wishing | |
#10208 | inadequate | |
#10242 | insufficient | |
#10327 | defect | |
#10574 | lacking | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#11158 | neglect | |
#11775 | shortage | |
#13061 | lacks | |
#13804 | misses | |
#18466 | shortages | |
#18526 | lacked | |
#19109 | deprivation | |
#19766 | omit | |
#20010 | overlook | |
#23993 | shortfall | |
#27877 | scarcity | |
#31954 | insufficiency | |
#43809 | inadequacy | |
#47177 | dearth | |
#49433 | unavailability | |
#55818 | shortcoming | |
#60520 | paucity | |
#88969 | falta | |
#95106 | frugality | |
#95248 | destitution | |
#112192 | privation | |
#187358 | misdemeanour | |
#229574 | neediness |
How to use lack in a sentence?
April 1 is usually the time of year we have the highest fuel moisture content, and this year they are still dormant because lack of rain, they are stressed and there's no new growth. The plants aren't responding because of the lack of moisture.
What I take from that is there was a need for these stories, and we’re fulfilling that on some level, there’s a lack of diversity in storytelling, especially on television… and it’s not just about LGBT people, it’s people of color, it’s all minorities… we just need to be aware of what people are experiencing. If you’re not experiencing that and you’re a producer or filmmaker, just take the time to educate yourself a little bit, or to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, and I think that just makes for better content everywhere. For our show, we just want people to have some sort of visceral reaction. Hopefully they like it, but it’s cool if people don’t and we can create a dialogue and have a real conversation.
The tissue acts like sticky glue on different organs, and that can fix them in place, that lack of flexibility can make things hurt during sex.
The NHL has advised our organization that Evander Kane has been suspended without pay for 21 games for an established violation of, and lack of compliance with, the NHL/NHLPA COVID-19 Protocols, while we are encouraged by Evander’s commitment to moving forward, we are extremely disappointed by his disregard for the health and safety protocols put in place by the NHL and the NHLPA.
People that I had been around for 10 years, it was like there was no reaching out. There was no,' What's going on ? How can I help you ?' it showed a lack of depth, even though we had shared pretty intimate things.
Translations for lack
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- نقص, عدم وجودArabic
- брак, адсу́тнасцьBelarusian
- отсъ̀ствие, ну́жда, ли́псаBulgarian
- manca, mancar, falta, faltarCatalan, Valencian
- postrádat, nedostatekCzech
- yn eisiauWelsh
- entbehren, fehlen, mangeln, MangelGerman
- mankoEsperanto
- falta, carecer, faltar, ausencia, carenciaSpanish
- puute, vaje, puuttua, vajausFinnish
- manquer, défaut, manqueFrench
- uireasaIrish
- easbhaidh, gainne, cion, gainneadScottish Gaelic
- कमीHindi
- mankeHaitian Creole
- nélkülöz, hiányHungarian
- պակասArmenian
- indijarIdo
- skorta, skorturIcelandic
- necessitare, mancanza, carenza, richiedere, scarseggiare, penuria, scarsità, mancareItalian
- 欠ける, 欠く, 不足Japanese
- 부족Korean
- desum, egeo, pēnūria, desidero, careoLatin
- koreMāori
- недостатокMacedonian
- gebrekDutch
- mangel, mangleNorwegian
- niedostatek, brakPolish
- faltar, deficiência, falta, carência, carecerPortuguese
- lipsăRomanian
- отсутствовать, нехва́тка, отсу́тствие, недоста́ток, нужда́Russian
- недостатак, nedostatakSerbo-Croatian
- nedostatokSlovak
- fattas, brist, sakna, avsaknadSwedish
- பற்றாக்குறைTamil
- eksiklik, yoksunluk, yoksun olmak, yoklukTurkish
- відсу́тність, брак, недоста́чаUkrainian
- کمیUrdu
- thiếuVietnamese
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